Conversation – 15

@kittengirl,

I will write to you tomorrow on the song. Thank you for sharing it. I have to have quiet
time for that. Poppy demands attention and so do my husband. LOL!

I was outside watching the “Pink Moon” Oh go take a look if you can. It is so beautiful.

Kitten get some rest I will be here all weekend off and on. I know you miss your kids
and grandson I miss my kids too. I believe you ate/eat healthy look at your kids. 🙂
I am cutting back on on lot in my diet the only thing I indulge in is CHEESE! Yeah I need
to cut that. Well at least I can have my coffee just 2 cups and I drink it to the last drop. ♥

Good Night Kitten.

@Sheba,

Thank you for the prayers, I appreciate it more than you know. I am glad they have an EP cardiologist on their team now and I can stay in the same group and building. Their office is huge! No, I don’t have to eat any differently than I am now. I eat very healthy and rarely eat red meat . I have started eating more oatmeal to lower the cholesterol and I am going to cut out cheese entirely except non fat cottage cheese. Is there such a thing? I’ve always eaten low fat. I will switch out my milk for organic non fat instead of organic 1 or 2%. If there really is significant blockage there, I don”t think it stems entirely from eating poorly in the past. My parents ate very healthy and were thin and active but both had heart issues (they each had 3 stents) and both passed from cancer. There is definitely more room for improvement in my diet but I am for the most part eating very healthy and I walk almost every day. I just hope the other Dr is wrong. I just want to start feeling better and not be so tired all the time. It would be great to actually have some energy! 😀

Hey, did you look up that song?

I’m really going to miss my daughter and grandson for Easter this year! We will see them when they get back. 😀 You would just love them! She is so pretty and he is so adorable! She is working so hard getting her degree (environmental science/chemistry) and taking care of him. I’m so proud of my family. 😀

Have a good night! 😀 Hugs to Poppy! Yes, I will hug the kitties for you. 😀

Easter
Festivity

Easter, also called Pascha or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day after his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.

Why do we have Easter eggs at Easter?

Easter is a Christian festival. For Christians the custom of giving eggs at Easter celebrates new life. Christians remember that Jesus, after dying on the cross, rose from the dead. … The hare found it could lay eggs, so it decorated these each Spring and left them as offering to the goddess.

This is OZ! This is our State Flower. ♥

Official State Flower of Kansas
Kansas designated the wild native sunflower as official state flower and floral emblem in 1903. All State Flowers

The sunflower is also featured on the Kansas quarter, state flag, and even the nickname for Kansas is “The Sunflower State.”

Sunflower Facts
Native Americans were using native sunflowers for food over 3,000 years ago. These wild sunflower seeds were only about 5 mm. long. Over hundreds of years and careful husbandry (selecting only the largest seeds for cultivation), the Plains tribes began the development of today’s large modern sunflower, rich with oil.

Sunflower heads consist of 1,000 to 2,000 individual flowers joined together by a receptacle base. The large petals around the edge of a head are actually individual ray flowers, which do not develop into seed.

There are more than 60 species of sunflowers. The native sunflower grows to 15 feet tall with flower heads up to 2 feet in diameter, and can produce over 1,000 seeds from one plant. The flower head turns and faces the sun throughout the day – tracking the sun’s movement. Sunflower seeds are rich in protein and yield a high-quality vegetable oil.

Excerpt from Kansas Legislation
WHEREAS, Kansas has a native wild flower common throughout her borders, hardy and conspicuous, of definite, unvarying and striking shape, easily sketched, moulded, and carved, having armorial capacities, ideally adapted for artistic reproduction, with its strong, distinct disk and its golden circle of clear glowing rays — a flower that a child can draw on a slate, a woman can work in silk, or a man can carve on stone or fashion in clay; and

WHEREAS, This flower has to all Kansans a historic symbolism which speaks of frontier days, winding trails, pathless prairies, and is full of the life and glory of the past, the pride of the present, and richly emblematic of the majesty of a golden future, and is a flower which has given Kansas the world-wide name, “the sunflower state”…

Be it enacted … that the helianthus or wild native sunflower is … designated … the state flower and floral emblem of the state of Kansas.

@kittengirl,

First you are not a Debbie Downer your health is important. I am so sorry you are going
through all this. I would be worried too. I would listen to your primary care Physician
since you trust him. I don’t like all the going back and forth but you have to get it right.
i think it was smart of you to go and talk with your Doctor. Kitten I don’t know what to say
except you have my prayers.

Do you have to have a special diet? I would so treat myself to something. Kitten that is a
lot of stress to deal with. This too shall pass. We all will be praying for you. Kitten no I am
not sorry I ask I want you to be well please enjoy all the kitties I know that will make you
feel a little better. 🙂

@Sheba,

Sorry, I just put those numbers in and it says no video. Sorry, I told you I am not good at that! Try putting in Paul Wilbur – No body like you. There is a video with the universe. Watch that one. Awesome!!!!

Good morning Sheba,
Thank you for your concern. I wish I knew what to tell you but I am kind of in the dark too and in a difficult position of having to get a new Dr. I went to the Electro-physiologist cardiologist (surgeon) on Wednesday and got bad news that I cant move forward with the surgery or my oral surgery because the test results showed some blockage. He was going to schedule me for an angiogram/stent (what Faire went through) for Friday. I was in shock and said I needed more time. Next day I had follow up with my regular cardiologist and told him about what the EP(surgeon) said. He blew his top. He has not been happy I am seeing this other Dr because he did not refer me to him (he referred me to another one who doesn’t take my insurance) and told me yesterday he does not trust my well being in his hands. He wants me to see the new Electro-physiologist they have on staff now as of 2 months ago. Dr had me sign release forms to get the test results sent to him so he could review them (the other Dr hasn’t been informing my cardiologist of anything and if I hadn’t had my appointment yesterday he would not have known. He feels the other Dr is overstepping his boundaries because he is the “electrician” and my regular Dr is the “plumber” and he would be the one to do the angiogram and stent or whatever needs I need done if necessary). I feel like I am in some soap opera and all I want is to be taken care of! Wednesday and Thursday were highly emotional. I’m scared, confused, worried and not feeling well. I just want to feel well! I agreed to see the EP in their practice on Wednesday and if the report coming in to my Dr is anything of an urgent matter he will call me and we will get it taken care of right away. In the meantime he lowered my rythmol to my previous dosage because he thinks the higher dosage has been the reason my heart rate has been falling so low. If it continues I am supposed to go to ER. I cannot have my other heart procedure or my oral surgery until this matter is resolved, whatever that is. I have had my regular cardiologist for 12 years and trust him implicitly to always have my best interests at heart. He is not a sugar-coater and believes in telling me how things are. He also does NOT take unnecessary risks so if there is blockage he will be right on it. I am concerned because an angiogram is done with iodine and I am allergic to it and that is an added risk. If I have to have it done, he will inject me with prednisone and antihistamines to minimize risks. I am so stressed I woke up wit chest pain at 2:15 this morning. I was scared I was having a heart attack. All my vitals were good. I took them at 15 minute intervals and they were stable and good range. I guess it’s just my normal chest pain but I’m just hoping life can stay calm for the next couple of weeks until I know for sure what is going on. Well, there you have it, are you sorry you asked? I am not trying to bring drama. I haven’t really talked about what’s going on because I don’t like being a debbie downer. Thank you for your prayers. I NEED them! 😀 I will of course, cuddle my kitties. Don’t you worry about that!

I hope you have a nice relaxing day. I am going to continue work on cleaning and purging nightstands and hall bathroom. Busy work helps me when I am stressed. I will also be finding comfort in things like this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwIMG1y2i2o. I hope you check it out. I don’t know how to link things here so I just put the utube numbers for it. It is awesome. Always grounds me, centers me and lets me know God is in control.

Have a good day! It will all work out.

@loaf,

Happy Easter Loaf to you and your entire family. Wish I were there.